inland rev is a joke hiding behind 2 way mirrors

someone didn't get greased. sometimes this country makes me shame

First one needs to separate the "builders" from the "contractors". The 2 are not the same. A builder builds a house and collects a paycheck at the end of the day for his work, there is no profit margin and someone else is managing construction. A "Contractor" works on a fixed price contract with specifics and responsibilities of the project to be completed. So many so called 'contractor's' cant read and have a young lady fresh out of high school typing up a 1 page "contract" to try and get work. A contract means if you don't complete the job or don't do it right there are penalties to be paid. Way too many people working in this business who don't have a clue what they are doing.

par for course? numbnuts at the helm with all for me baby pulling the strings?

the sad irony is that if it did happen it would be some terrorist group like Hamas or North Korea and then every single innocent Bahamian and everyone else living in this god's country would then pay the consequences and the USA would play right into the hands of the terrorists giving them exactly what they wanted - a new war and more suffering. Hamas wants death and pain and they got it, Israel and USA are responding exactly as intended to escalate and cause more death and pain of countless innocent lives.

insurance rate should be closely tied to the quality and strength of construction. Have a house than withstood a cat 5? you get 50% discount but no they don't do that. This guy seems to be rather shortsighted for a home builder. Is he really supporting the idea that the vast majority of Bahamian's one and only major investment (their home) can and should be built in a substandard manner so that when they lose that investment they are left with nothing? I assure you every Bahamian building or rebuilding on the island of Abaco is building well beyond and above the standard building code. If your contractor is cutting corners and not using any steel in your building project fire him. fire him also if he doesn't know how to form the steel properly.

why does this hot air get so much attention here?

and nothing will change

I still fail to see why these big fancy yachts get to be exempt from tax while the rest of us have to pay it? house vacation rentals are supposed to be collecting VAT... why not yachts? Why not make it law that all house and boat charters/rentals are required to be worked through Bahamian business? simple solution although enforcement would be difficult.

is now a good time to talk about the $1,500,000 grant provided to W&S to build a solar field to supply unlimited and free electricity to run the pumps to supply MH? It is said that this grant came with the stipulation that no bills would be issued to residents for a period of time. I suspect W&S decided they found a loop hole and decided to bill everyone anyway. Is the grant going to become payable now that they are collecting from the public? What about that free electricity from the large and expensive solar field? Is that not supposed to have some effect on the consumers bills? Billing for water when no one was living in the house for a year or 2? Something just ain't right about that.